Humorous. [f. FOOL sb.1 + -(O)CRACY.] a. Government by fools. b. A governing class or clique consisting of fools.
1832. Syd. Smith, Lett., 21 Nov., in Mem. & Lett. (1855), II. 341. What oceans of absurdity and nonsense will the new liberties of Scotland disclose! Yet this is better than the old infamous jobbing, and the foolocracy under which it has so long laboured.
1861. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alteram Partem, III. cxliv. 127. The management of affairs has been taken up by, or given up to, what may for conciseness be called a ‘foolocracy,’ or outcry of those least able to form a useful judgment on the subject they rush to settle.
